| Author |
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929 |
| LoC No. |
10024460
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| Title |
Science from an Easy Chair
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| Contents |
Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon: a fancy or a fact -- Oysters -- Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air, and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes and others -- Sparrows, trout, and selective breeding -- The feeble-minded -- Death-rates -- Gossamer -- The jumping bean -- Protective colouring in animals -- Hop-blight -- Green-flies, plant-lice, and parthenogenesis -- The deadly Phylloxera -- Clothes moths -- Stone and wood borers -- Christmas fare -- The origin of opium -- The most ancient men -- The cave-men's skulls -- More about the Neander Men.
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| Credits |
Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
Q: Science
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| Subject |
Science
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| Subject |
Natural history
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
57136 |
| Release Date |
May 11, 2018 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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